Book: Endangered languages and their literatures

[McGinnis, Scott]

Title: Endangered Languages and their Literatures

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Foundation for Endangered Languages
           http://www.ogmios.org,
	   http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/FEL/
			
Editor: R  McKenna Brown 
Hardback: ISBN: 0953824845, Pages: 156, Price: 18 pounds sterling ($30
	  US)
Comment: (including surface postage and packing)
			
Abstract:
			
Preface
Endangered Languages and Their Literatures
        R. McKenna Brown

1. Strategies and Resources
        Joel Sherzer
        (Keynote Address: AILLA: Archive of the Indigenous Languages
        of Latin America)
   The Pedagogical and Linguistic Issues Involved in Production of EL
   Materials: A Case Study of Nawat
        Monica Ward
   A Tarahumara-English Computational Semantic Lexicon
        J.E. Lonergan

2. Orthographies
   To the Letter: A Microanalysis of Currently Contested Graphemes in
   the Maya of Yucatan
        Michal Brody
   I Can't Read That Way of Writing:Linguistic and Indigenous
   Systems Clash in the Apache Language Revitalization Movement
        Pamela Innes

3. Proverbs, Metaphor and Poetics
   Re-Kindling Interest in an Endangered Language: A Way Forward for
   Igbo
        Chiroke Asogwa
   If You Play With Fire: Literary Production in Jicarilla Apache
        Jule Gomez de Garcia, Melissa Axelrod, and Jordan Lachler
   Cognitive Metaphor in Language Revitalization
        Jocelyn Ahlers

4. Endangered Languages Literatures and Education
   Literatures for the Semi-Literate: Issues for Emerging Literacies
   in the Kimberly Region of North-Western Australia
        Joseph Blythe & Frances Kofod
   The Role of Educators as Biological, Cultural, and Language
   Exterminators: Teaching for Creativity, Measuring for Conformity

        Norman Thomson Jepkorir Chepyator-Thomson

5. Strategies: Case Studies
   Using Storytelling in Schools to Preserve Endangered Languages
        Alexis Lopez
   On the Steps of Memory: Theater Anthropology as an Instrument for
   Cultural and Linguistic Revitalization in Indigenous Communities of
   the Colombian Amazon
        Giovanna Micarelli Hernán Gomez
   Languages Worth Writing: Endangered Languages of Nepal
        Mary Morgan & Deepa Gurung

6. Oral Literatures: Collection
   La experiencia de recopilar el conocimiento Kuna
        V. Perez Rivera (I. Kungiler)
   The Symbolic Value of Oral Literature for the Revitalization of
   Tawahka
        David R. Margolin, Marcela Carñas, Suyapa Dilworth, and Carmen
        Palacios

7. Oral Literatures: Diffusion
   The Blossoming of Our Ancestors' Words: Oral Tradition Collected
   and Published by Mayan Students
        Andrew E. Liebermann Jacinto de Paz Perez
   Strategies for Promoting Endangered Language Literatures Outside
   Their Local Communities
        Nadine Grimm & Laura Martin

8. Mayan Literature
   Bajo la montana: Women's Stories of la violencia
        Janferie Stone
   Maya Poetics: Renaissance in Continuity      133
        Maria Luz Garcia
   A Tissue of Lies: History versus Myth in the Nature of Time
        Christopher Hadfield